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Raising
- verb - activate or stir up; "raise a mutiny"
- bet more than the previous player
- bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level
- bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project; "raised edges"
- bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children"
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
- cause to assemble or enlist in the military; "raise an army"; "recruit new soldiers"
- cause to be heard or known; express or utter; "raise a shout"; "raise a protest"; "raise a sad cry"
- cause to become alive again; "raise from the dead"; "Slavery is already dead, and cannot be resurrected"; "Upraising ghosts"
- cause to puff up with a leaven; "unleavened bread"
- collect funds for a specific purpose; "The President raised several million dollars for his college"
- construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn"
- create a disturbance, especially b
Ramming
- verb - crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked"
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad"
- strike or drive against with a heavy impact; "ram the gate with a sledgehammer"; "pound on the door"
- undergo damage or destruction on impact; "the plane crashed into the ocean"; "The car crashed into the lamp post"
Ramping
- verb - be rampant; "the lion is rampant in this heraldic depiction"
- behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
- creep up -- used especially of plants; "The roses ramped over the wall"
- furnish with a ramp; "The ramped auditorium"
- stand with arms or forelegs raised, as if menacing
Randing
- - The act or process of making and applying rands for shoes.
Ranging
- verb - assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"
- change or be different within limits; "Estimates for the losses in the earthquake range as high as $2 billion"; "Interest rates run from 5 to 10 percent"; "The instruments ranged from tuba to cymbals"; "My students range from very bright to dull"
- feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing"
- have a range; be capable of projecting over a certain distance, as of a gun; "This gun ranges over two miles"
- lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line; "lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments"
- let eat; "range the animals in the prairie"
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled f
Ranking
- verb - assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"
- having a higher rank; "superior officer"
- position on a scale in relation to others in a sport
- take or have a position relative to others; "This painting ranks among the best in the Western World"
- take precedence or surpass others in rank
Ranting
- verb - a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
- talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
Rapping
- verb - make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently"
- perform rap music
- strike sharply; "rap him on the knuckles"
- talk volubly
Rasping
- verb - scrape with a rasp
- unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice"
- utter in a grating voice
- uttering in an irritated tone
Ratting
- verb - catch rats, especially with dogs
- desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage
- employ scabs or strike breakers in
- give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat
- give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam"
- take the place of work of someone on strike
- to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors)